Bob is trying to see if his shadow is longer than Kevin’s. Kevin is 3 feet tall, and Bob is 2½ feet tall. Kevin’s shadow is 5 feet long. Help Bob find the length of his shadow

Given parameters:

Height of Kevin  = 3ft

Height of Bob = 2.5ft

Hieght of Kevin's shadow = 5ft

Unknown:

Length of Bob's shadow = ?

We can simply set up simple ratio to solve this problem.

 The ratio of Kevin's height to Bob's height is 3 : 2.5

  The ratio of their shadow should also be 5: Bob's shadow height

Equating the two of them should give a fairly constant ratio;

            3Bob  = 5 x 2.5

 Bob's shadow height  =   = 4.2ft

The height of Bob's shadow is  4.2ft.

2 over 5

step-by-step explanation:

the 2: 3 ratio is the length of the ac segment to the cb segment total length. this implies that the ratio between segment ac length and segment ab length is 2: 5. point c is 2/5 from a to b, so the required fraction is 2/5.

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